Re: VLC/mplayer (Re: The Linux desktop challenge)

["Ted Roche-2" <user=127@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Dec 3, 2007 4:43 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen 
<[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> Yes -- mplayer includes many questionable codecs, which would not be 
> allowed for most legally-biding Linux distributions.  The support for 
> formats is better in mplayer, but this comes at the price of 
> freedom... 

Legally-licensed codecs are available for purchase from 
http://www.fluendo.com for those who have to use encumbered formats. I 
purchased a set for one machine I use for multimedia stuff. It 
includes support for a variety of MP2, MP4 and WMV formats, but not 
QuickTime. 

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Ted Roche 
Ted Roche &amp; Associates, LLC 
http://www.tedroche.com

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